Nepali Date Today
As of Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 11:31 PM, today's Nepali (Bikram Sambat / विक्रम सम्वत्) date is:
Today's Nepali (Bikram Sambat / विक्रम सम्वत्) date — full detail
- Date
- 5 Jestha 2083 BS
- Devanagari
- जेठ ५, २०८३
- Short form
- 2083/02/05 BS
- Year
- 2026 BS — Bikram Sambat (विक्रम सम्वत्)
- Weekday
- Sombar (Monday)
- Gregorian
- Tuesday, May 19, 2026
- Current BS year
- 2083 (today)
- Year conversion
- Gregorian + 56 (early year) or + 57 (after mid-April) = BS year
- New Year
- Naya Barsha — 1 Baisakh ≈ 13–14 April Gregorian
- Twelve months
- Baisakh, Jestha, Asar, Shrawan, Bhadra, Ashwin, Kartik, Mangsir, Poush, Magh, Falgun, Chaitra
- Official use
- Sole civil calendar of Nepal for all government and educational purposes
- Unique feature
- Nepal is the only nation with a non-Gregorian primary civil calendar in the modern era
Why today matters
Today is the 5th of Jestha (जेठ ५) — the second month of the Nepali year and the hottest of the pre-monsoon period. Jestha contains Buddha Jayanti (the full-moon day commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of the Buddha — observed as a major national holiday in Nepal, the birthplace of the Buddha at Lumbini), as well as the festival of Sithi Nakha in the Newar community (a celebration of the creator god Kumar, on the sixth day of the waxing moon in Jestha). The month is also the deadline for many Nepali fiscal and academic year-end matters; the Nepali academic year ends in mid-Jestha and the new year begins after the brief Jestha–Asar transition.
जेठको हावा, मान्छेको आशा — <em>Jestha ko hawa, manchhe ko aasha</em> — "In Jestha's wind, a person's hope rises." — Nepali proverb
How we compute this
Nepali (Bikram Sambat / विक्रम सम्वत्) is a solar (sidereal) calendar. Each year contains 365 days (366 in leap years) — sidereal solar year, with each month averaging 29–32 days, set by the sun's sidereal zodiac transits. Years are counted from 57 BCE — traditional reign of King Vikramaditya of Ujjain (era: BS — Bikram Sambat (विक्रम सम्वत्)).
The Bikram Sambat era is named after King Vikramaditya of Ujjain (the same legendary figure as the Indian Vikram Samvat), with year 1 corresponding to 57 BCE. Nepal made Bikram Sambat the official national calendar in 1903 CE under Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shumsher, and it has remained the sole civil calendar of Nepal ever since — uniquely among modern nations, where Gregorian is virtually universal for civil business. The Nepali Bikram Sambat differs from the Indian Vikram Samvat in one critical structural way: Nepal uses solar months (each beginning when the sun enters a new sidereal zodiac sign), while most Indian users of Vikram Samvat use lunisolar months. So although the year number is the same (2083 in both today), Nepali month boundaries don't match Indian Vikram Samvat month boundaries — and Nepal's calendar is closer in structure to the Tamil calendar than to the North Indian Hindu calendar.
Used by: ~30 million Nepalis (Nepal's population) plus the Nepali diaspora worldwide. Regions: Nepal — sole official national calendar for government, school years, public holidays, contracts, and civil records.